#quiz001

1. city of alexandria was named after alexander the great

2. burned down by caesar 2000 years ago

3. not only a library but a research centre - could be credited for the first model for a university it had the worlds first medical school

4. it existed for 700 years.

5. it had a place full of papyrus scrolls known as bibliotheqi (?) - above the shelves full of these scrolls, was a place of inscription that wrote: "the place of the cure of the soul"

no one knows what was in those scrolls (400 000 - 70 000 scrolls, estimated)

People who studied, taught, or conducted research tehre:

6. Hipparchus - an astronomer, founder of trig. 1st to establish brightness levels of stars

7. Euclid - most famous teacher of math

Dionysius thrax - defined various parts of speech: nouns, verbs etc

1st medical school, which was in the Alexandrian library, established by Herophilus: the father of anatomy, who defined where thinking came from & not the heart (which was a belief for thousands of years)